A number of recommendations for improved access to media for people with disabilities came out of the Media Access Review. This page provides an overview of their progress as at June 2011. We will continue to update this page as news of progress on these recommendations is released.
AGIMO, which is part of the Department of Finance and Deregulation, is tasked with delivering the Web Accessibility National Transition Strategy – a strategy that requires government websites to comply with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0.
The strategy requires all Federal, State, and Territory government websites to conform to the Single A level of the WCAG 2.0 by the end of 2012. All Commonwealth Government websites must conform to the Double A level of WCAG 2.0 by the end of 2014.
The Western Australian accessibility policy [PDF 156KB], updated in March 2009, requires the WA Government and its agencies to:
The eGovernment Resource Centre sets out the Victorian Government's approach to accessibility and provides information about the Victorian Government use of social media and information and communications technology (ICT). It also provides information on best practice for web accessibility.
The eGovernment Resource Centre states:
All websites must conform to version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). Including the following;
